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G o o d s — C h e a p
G O O D S.
J.
I
H.
VOL. I.
NO. 17.
DALLAS, OREGON. MONDAY, JULY 13, 1868.
Jcs
Gaston, Esq.,
M a i l s t o I n d e p e n d e n c e .— It is a
8 t u p id F a lseh o o d s .— The bondo-
A Subscriber, and a gentleman whom
has been reelected, by the Board o f wo very much respect, residing ip.Linn very parody on mail accommodations cratie radical journals are endeavoring
Directors, President o f the Oregon county’ writes us a letter expostulating for a town the sise o f Independence—- to palm off the assertion that the bonds
Central Rail Road Company. Mr. G. with us on the Railroad question. He fora community evincing so commend* are mainly held by the poor, laboring
deserves well of the people o f Oregon says, and truly, that some of the men able a share o f enterprise and public classes. Scarcely anyone can name a
R
e e l e c t e d . —
engaged in the east side enterprise are spirit as do the people o f that place— single poor man or woman anywhere,
devotion to their interests in the mat­ actuated by honest and upright motives. to be insulted with a vest pocket mail who owns a cents worth o f these bonds.
ter of the Railroad over the destinies o f AYe do Dot doubt this in the least, and once a week 1 A t no other point in Their necessities are generally such
which he has been called to preside for hence the stand we have take^ with1 Polk county is an equal amount o f bus* that they must otherwise use their
lor his great efforts in their behalf and
L E W I S
S prepared to exhibit an excellent and
carefully selected stock of
Independence is earnings for the support o f their fam­
Uocerie*,
years since he commenced the great animus o f the leading and controlling neglected by the D efer UoeuL «barged ilies— and others dependent upon them.
Hardware,
work which is now the boast o f Oregon spirits in it. W e deemed it our duty with dispensing mail facilities as no They cannot lay b j fifty dollars, or a
Cutlery
Clothing,
ians, and the eminent success of which to expose what we had every reason to other point is neglected and overlooked hundred dollars, and get along without
Nail*, must be flattering to him indeed. He has
believe to be a gigantic swindle. Yfe in the entire county. Arrangements it. I f by some trade or chance, a poor
not ouly had to overcome the ordinary certainly have no objection to a road should immediately be made for a man should become possessed o f a hun­
ROOTS If SHOES;
obstacles to the inauguration of great being built on that side o f the river.
tri-wpekly service to that town— the dred dollar bond, he generally finds it
And in fact everything in the line of
enterprises like the one in which he i* Quite the contrary. W e desire to see people deserve this consideration while necessary to coavert it into something
S T A P L E aud F A N C Y G O O D S
he needs or sell it at a shave to some
now engaged, but, has had to contend all portions of the State flourish. Is their interests demand it.
Solitary and alone, three regard to said enterprise, or rather thet ¡ness done
another year.
..Dry Good*,
usually kept in a retail Store will he found on
hands and for sale as CHEAP us the CHEAP­
EST.
3tf
N E W G O O D S! N E W GOODS!
aud yet
against the claims, falsely set up, o f a evidence wanting on the point that it
C o m p l e t e d .— A substantial new
Company organized for m ischief and was the intention to act uufairly when
having for its sponsors, demagogues and the east side Company was organized ? fence has just been completed enclosing
irresponsible knaves who have prosti- W e thiuk not. W hy did said Compa. the grave of the late Republican party.
have jus»t received and now opened a new ! tu ted p osition s g iv e n th e m b y th e peO- ny usurp the name and with it attempt
aud fresh »tuck o f Spring aud Summer
pie to the base and ignoble ends o f sub­ to usurp the franchises o f a Company
GOODS all
I
egress can be accomplished. From this
verting all o f his plans and usurping of prior organization ? W e never should fact it is inferred that it is not supposed
K iu d s ,
his franchises. But, notwithstanding have lifted our pen against said east there is to be any resurrection o f the
Styles,
all this, Mr. Gaston’s road is a success side enterprise had we entertained a said party— that it is buried so deep
and Varieties.
W®11 adapted to this trade both as to price i heyoqd the contingency of a failure.— doubt of its bogus character. When that Gabriel’s trump will never reach
and duality. To those desiring to purchase a 1 . . , .
,
. c
.
said Company can reconcile its ten it. I f the misery, woe, wretchedness,
O LD B R IC K C O R N E R
And examine for yourselves.
P R IN T » at I2J cents per yard.
Good quality fow-ti>wt|ii BKOWN CABOTT
A-toHEEriKU 1*1 cent*
COFFEE by the snek 23 cents per pound,
retail 25 cents, and al/ other things in propor­
tion. Come aud examine and be satisfied.
J \ 0 € . K E LI>
D A V ID S O N , M
D ,
P H Y S IC I AN & S U R G E O N .
IN D E P E N D E N C E
-
-
OREGON.
NEW C O L I I I I B 1 1 X
n O T E L ,
Main St.. Corvallis, Oregon.
P r o p ’r .
E. S. A ltree,
oard and Lodging on reasonable
Meals at all hours.
terms.
B
R t R H E R and
DRESSEK.
IIA IH
In d e p e d e n c e , O r e g o n .
M. C A N T E R B U R Y , m . D.,
P H Y S IC IA N & SU R G E O N .
D IX IE .
OREGON,
l edical Examiner for Manhattan life In-
M
sarance Co. o f N. Y.
W OOL ! WOOL ! W OOL!!
ooo
5 0 , ,(HH)
Pounds o f WOOL
the California
wanted for
market, at
M ITGHEL A ROSENDORF’S, IN D EPEN D ­
ENCE, »h o have the Agency for California,
» i l l pay a higher Cash price for it, than any
other house in the county.
M1TC11EL 1 ROSENDORF.
8m3
•JOAES T H E J E W E L E R ,
S tate S tr e e t, S a le m , O r e g o n ,
» the ptac® to go and get your watches,
clocks and jewelry repaired in good style.
1 »arran t*11’my work for one yea r; if it
mot eight. I make it right.
1
r e m e m b e r
t h e
« h o p
IN THE POST OFFICE BUILDING.
N. B. Fine watches rnpalaed with the great -
•at oar®,
tf.
Pr- W. 0 . J L
T F R IE S .
C O L A , O R EG ON.
Special attci tion given to Obstetric* and
dieeaace of wumen.
M c C a u lle y
*
ALEXANDER,
D E N T I S T
S.
FFfOB on State afreet, over GUIs* Book
-BiAr®, £al®m. Oregon.
All operations performed by ns are warranted
to give satisfaction.
O
One o f the in # may b® found in our
office from 8 o’clock A. u.t uutil 4 p. »., of each
day.
S. D. McCAULEY,
- 18Iy
K. V. H. ALEXANDER.
WATSON If CRISWELL,
Architects and Practical
HOUSE CARPENTERS,
IM P E N D E N C E
OREGON.
TIT ILL take Contracts for Building Houses
¿ascription and kind, in town
soontry. Satisfaction guaranteed. 6tf
which has been sold for taxes.
Thus
poverty, confusion and wickedness en­
tailed by that party during its brief ex
way into the coffers o f the rich.
Out
upon the lying twaddle then, that the
bonds are generally held by poor people.
Even the blackest republican is com­
pelled to say this is a lie— a cheat.
T he
Oregonian really
thinks
it
would be repudiation to pay the bond,
istenee could be buried with it, the holder in greenbacks. W e will ask
present and succeeding generations said paper i f it is repudiation to pay
would have cause to 44 rejoice ever
more.
it is repudiation for August BclmoBt
towards completion.
til then, we must be permitted to enter
O pposes IT.-Notwithstanding the fact to pay his array o f clerks, workmen and
then
enters a level plain for the remainder our protest and forewarn the people that that paper admits numerous bib­
o f the distance to Hillsboro. Once against said Company’s wiles and ad*, lical inaocurcies to exist, the Christian
Advocate (Portland) opposes the new
c mpleted and stocked to this point, monish them to keep out o f its toils.
version now being issued by the A m er­
tne road commences to earn something
servants in greenbacks?
W as it not
the Government who was the repudia-
tor when the Oregon war claims were
liquidated with greenbaeks ? A nd final,
Jacksonville ican Bible Union. I f the K in g James ly, is there any justice in paying Jay
through Yatuhiil, Polk. Renton, Lane. Sentinel says that it anly cost oae hun­ version was an improvement upon for* Cook’s bonds in coin besides exempting
Douglas, Jackson aud Josephine coun dred and fifty.jive millions to carry on mer versions— and the Advocate admits him from the payment o f State and
the Government last y ea r! W hat on as ranch— may not the Seriptnres be County Taxes, while
ay Cook may
ties is only a question o f time.
earth can a party or party organ hope further improved and simplified ? . A pay the laborer who may chance to
for the Company, when
its completiou
B ald
F a c e d . — The
to gain by such bald faced and stupid comparison o f the late version with the
gon ion evades ati answer to our inter­ lying? Look at the fiscal statement K ing James versioo, will, we think,
rogatory as to whether the radical Chi­ for last year, and it will be seen that redound to the credit o f the former,
cago platform, in its resolution relating the interest paid by the Government if direetness, accuracy and simplicity
to the pay me t o f the public debt con­ for the period namtvd, alone amounted are sought to be attained.
D are
not
A
nsw er
I t .— T he
Ore
to about one hundred and and fifty
million dollars. T h \ interest ou the
diets that the New York Convention
will not resolve in favor of its payment public debt,
in anything.
W e suppose that paper
though amounting to a
large sum, is, comparatively speaking,
correspondent
asks :
44 W hy
pro
mation to the enemy.
N o such allega­
in greenbacks? It requires.a most il­
logical effort to attempt to sustain the
proportion that the farmer, laborer and
mechanic, all o f whom most pay taxes,
backs while the bond lord who pays no
don’t W oods count the votes and pro­ taxes should have gold.
claim the result ? I f the State had gone
radical we would have been greeted by
will agree with us that its logic is not but a small item o f Government expen­
the “ Sneezer’s ” proclamation in less
very profound just now touching the ditures.
than a week after the election.”
greenback question. The Oregonian
W e cannot answer certainly, but
G r a n t a n d t h e J e w s . — Some o f
knows that there is a vast army o f re­
suppose the Governor is waiting for
publicans, who, knowing and realizing the radical papers are trying to explain
something to 44 turn up ” by which
the justness o f such paymeut, and not Grant’s infamous order expelling the
he can declare Logan elected. Mr. L.
being willing to sell themselves, are in Jews from Tennessee. They say the
is as honestly elected to Congress as
favor o f the Democratic policy of pay. Jews expelled were of a low, degraded
he (W ood s) was elected Governor.
ing off the bonded indebtedness in the class who furnished supplies and infor
legal currency o f the country as
work for him and who must pay taxes,
ought to be compelled to .receive green­
A
G od
and
M o r a l it y . — Royal
A.
• « A < ■ loil 1 rascal
-
. • from
•
Massachusetts
married a wench near Murfreesboro,
Tenn., last winter, boarded on her
w'r , a gold bttckle given
“ Union ”
her by
a
army Chaplain in 64, two
silk dresses stolen by .herself from her
old 44 Micsus,” pawned the whoft for
twenty-three dollars in greenbaeks and
left for the north.
She advertises the
tion appears iu Grant’s “ o rd e r”
Nothing will be left here give tho lie to tho assertion that nor to appoint^the Superintendent o f the
undone that can be accomplished by 44 only thieving Jews were interfered Oregon
Penitentiary.
That officer
with.”
violence and perjury. The Constitu­
should be elected by the legislature.
tion (? ) o f Alabama was never adopted
A n A b l e A d v o c a t e .— W e are in
T he Gazette o f the 4inst., complains
even according to the Rump pro*
regular receipt o f the Daily State Cap­
that doggeries are increasing in num
gramme, yet th a t44 territory ” is “ ad-
ital R eporter, published in Sacramento her in Corvallis, and elsewhere. Y ou
rnitted ”
with
five others. W hat
City, Cal., in exchange. The Reporter,
compromised yonr prestige when you
mockery !
is Democratic, ably edited and in every
voted for Logan, Bro. Carter.
respect ranks among the first dailies
The people very naturally expect practice aa
A nother L ife o f G r a n t . — A . D.
o f the Pacific coast.
The W eekly well aa preaching.,
\
Richardson is writing a life o f Hiram
” ”
.........> " =■=”
R eporter, a very large sized sheet, is of­
Useless. Concerning Grant’s retieenee,
A Radical paper in Illinois, the lie*
fered during the Presidential Campaign
the author says : 44 Jo paivate he fills
public, having beoome disgusted with
— from July 10, to Nov. 10— for the
no interstices o f conversation by remarks
low price of one dollar. This is the the drunkenness o f the radical State
upon the weather, nor inquiries after
officers o f that State, as also with the
cheapest first class paper ever offered
the babies o f his visitors.”
W ell, he
drunken Senator, Dick Yates, throws
in California. The R eporter will be o f
talks 44 boss ” and. inquires after Mar
eff on Grant by saying it will, in. the
shul Brown’s slut’s pups, which shows immense service to the Democracy future, studiously abstain from support­
o f the Pacific States and territories,
his superior talent.
ing any drunkard for any position.—
aod we wish it long life and abundant
The Republic is published in Grant's
The entire Democratic ticket in L ex­ prosperity.
own State.
ington Mo. was elected on June 2.
F or the very beet as well aa the latest styles
A vote for Logan is a vote for
of hats, go to Maessdorffer Bra’a. Front st.
New Goods at J . H . Lewis’ store.
Portland.
•rani,”
Committee o f South Carolina have ad­
dressed. tp the United States Senate : an
appeal against the new Constitution,
in which they show that to carry out
its requirements, would require a rev­
enue o f $2,230,“950, while before the
war the1 annual revenue o f the State was
but 9350,060 ; so that, a tax o f three
per cent- on real estate would now be
neeossair. B ut property has depre­
ciated 33 per cent, since the war so
that the rest tax would be fen per ceut.
They show iu addition^ that <m a-unv.
erage the 74 ««loved delegates in the
late convention pay in taxes less than
5<?e. each, and that 46 white delegates
pay but $6 each. O f the 47 white
members, 23, pay no tax at all j and o f
the 74 colored ¿«legates, £ 9 , pay no
taxes. They phow also, that 97 col­
ored members o f the General Assem­
bly pay in taxes but 79fe. each, aod that
one pays $8 8 3 6 ; also that 46 odfc of
the 5.7 white members pay hut $7 each.
Twenty-four white members and 07
colored members pay ijo taxes at all.
The Governor, Lieutenant ’ Gbverrfor,
and six other principal Shite officers,
pay a total o f $16, or $2 11 each,
bounty until about April 1st, stole her
nor Bensell, member elect from Benton scoundrel. That loil chap would steal
selves, and stopping the interest.— docs he discriminate as to what 44 class ” county, to the Legislature, is an exem. acorns from a blind sow and then stump
That’s what’s the matter with the Ore­ o f Jews arc to suffer. The facts are, plary sort o f fellow and « thereby hangs the State o f Massachusetts for “ Grant
gonian, and that’s what’s sealed its lips the said order had for its base a system a tale.” The S ig nal will probably and Cold Facts,”
of wholesale robbery— was intended to
so suddenly on this question.
tell it, ere long. It is an interesting
M cPherson, o f the Unionist, was
drive the Jews out ol competition vt J q
story.
beaten
out o f $20 on a pair o f deuces,
is A ccordino to news received, Mis- the hordes o f Ddritan fanatics who had
in a game o f 44 draw poker,” recently,
sissippi has gone Democratic by a la r le ?u r -’na8ed « Traile P erm its” condì
O ur coming legislature should pro. aqd the ne^t morning wrote and pub­
®«,n*M
«*5**
A\'
It n t doe« iL
i. signify?—
* -O O
m
•
m
majority.
W hat
this
tioned that the Jews, who had already need, immediately upon organizing, to lished a windy article on the wicked­
Georgia went Democratic, but Mr. paid for 44 Permits,” should be driven repca lthe iron-clad oath, rescind the ness and enormous crime o f betting on
elections. 44 The very deuce was in it.”
Satrapy ordered the polls reopened and out
There ar eJews in Oregon who assent, fraudlently obtained, to the
W e are at a loss what to danominate
opened until the result wat revers were victims of that “ order,” and whose unconstitutional
Amendment,
and Me—a poker sharp (musically speaking)
ed. W ill not the same thing be done standing as gentlemen and citizens wipe out the law empowering the Gover­ or a poker fiat. Sinco he is only a
vided ou the face o f the bonds them­
However favored in a worldly sense
the rich and pow erfu l-ff the ch ild ra d o f
Ireland may be m i these face shores,
the rank and file -o f«o r poor eoutarry*
men only appear to be G o d ’»-own peo­
ple. Their hearts and aspirations seem
to be purer and m ore unselfish than
those o f »ur race who are entrusted with
tho guardianship o f wealth, and w he
are for thtf m ost part theoretical Irish-
men, who believe in. the freedom , of
their native' land, provided it van he At­
tained without the slightest pecuniary
or personal inconvenience t o jh e m , and
upon conditions so hurt,.me find gentle
as 1» involve the supposition that our
taskmasters are neither more nor less
than “ sacking doves.” In the day o f
Ireland’s v triumph, such
heartless
characters, arraigned before an accusing
conscience and their rejuvenated coun­
try, wilt be covered With shame and
remorse.
They will remember with
bitterness and dismay the time when,
with folded arms, and hard, sold -eyes,
they gazed listlessly upon our poble
struggle for freedom without having
contributed A single dollar to its tm o'
ccss. Again and again the galling tact
will refer to them, that without their
aid the victory was achieved by the
poorly equipped and poorly fed thou­
sands, WhoJ regardless o f life or limb*—
o f hunger, fatigue or cold, strong in
their sense o f right and sustained. by
undying patriotism, struck the shackles
from the limbs o f their enslaved hind red,
and set Vhteir feet upon a rock towering
through the broad light b f American
freedom. So sure as heaven bends
above us, so sure will the indepedence
o f Ireland be won through the channels
and under the circumstances here de­
scribed, unless its achievements be ren­
dered mor? easy by a generous oppen.
handedness oo the part o f the w ^ ltb y
o f our race who, i f turned aside by in­
clination or circumstances from throw,
ing their individual bone and sinew‘in­
to the scale, can otherwise advance the
interests o f our glorious cause, and re­
deem their name from eternal obloquy
and disgrace.— Fenian Volunteer.
T he C onstitution or S outh C ar ­
a cripple his pension in greenbacks ; if olina , — The Democratic State Central
U n­
The road
Ë
the soldier his wages in greenbacks and
seek any advantage o f the people*
in Mississippi ?
P H Y S IC IA N . & SU R G E O N .
him or to redeem his little homestead
W . for a few miles— is well advanced
templates greenbacks or coin, and pre
J . K . L E IIO ,
IRACTICAL
gon Central Railroad, and these only ed, we will agree with our friend that
temporarily. The working force on the majority at least, o f those connect
this road is now doubled. while the ed with the same arc honestly laboring
costly grading— that irom Portlond S. for the upbuild’ ng o f the state and do not
that have been accumulating against
No gate is provided by which ingress or it is that the bonds steadily find their
Grade9,
Spring su\>piy, I will invite your attention, a, J N o th in g sh ort of a g r e a t m o n e y crisis
1 am determined to adapt the prices to suit the or commercial panic Call seriously re­ ceut proposition with any known rule
present H ard T i mes , aud 1 ask you before |
,
,,
^
turd the onward progress o f the Ore by which fair dealing could bo intend,
purchasing to cal/ at the
Shylock to raise money to pay the taxes
A TR U E STATEM ENT. • •
sport in a small way, it would not be
appropriate to call him a ” poker sbi'.rp,"
and, in view o f the notorious fact that
he is generully 44 flat broke,” the safer
appellation would be 44 poker flat.”
S en ator N y e .— Horace
Greeley
said, wliep Senator Nye was spoken o f
for Secretary o f the Treasury under
Ben. W ade, that he knew one qualifi­
cation Nye had, and that was, that he
could borrow more money and never
pay it than-nny roan ©ver in W ashing­
ton. Thurlow W eed says Nye was
publicly offered for sale by brokers on
the impeachment, bat the friends o f
the President did not want him. That
was unfortunate for old Nye. W hen
the next Congress meets; after thè 4th
o f March next, says the Placer Herald,
the pemocrats will hold the majority
and suoh scoundrel’s ocoupation will be
gone. W hen the Democracy get con­
trol and commence the exposure o f
these official thieves, the. United States
«My beoome a little too warm and un­
healthy for them,
> i
P r a c t ic a l A p p l ic a t io n of $ * 0 -
ic a l PoiitbYi— The Black 'River, A r ­
kansas, Standard tells the following :
I t is reported that a gentleman, • Dtrn-
oerat t:4
in the southern
a w rt of
this county,,- being desirous o f ill us (ra­
ting the beauties o f radicalism^ and
testing the sincerity o f itV votaries and
advocates, invited a certain, radical, to
hi» house to stay ever night with him,
and et the same time invited a 44 man
and brother
to pass tho night under
his hospitable rodf. -
• Bed-time arriving, our Dripocratio
friend took a light apd conducted tl.o
44 b roth er” to the room and pointed ,ont
the bed he was tjooccupy. Sir on after,'h o
radical gentletneri (? ) absired to retire,
and c-or friend also oondueted him to
the pome room, and informed him chat
he was to occupy the scfue bed.
..
44 who is in that bed ?” asked the
radical.
* Mr. — ——
was the answer.
44 W h a t ! That -nigger !” indignant­
ly exclaimed the radical; “ you don’ t
suppose I ¡am going to sleep with I jin ,
do yon ?”
** I most certaihly do,” was the quiet
reply, i “ Y ou voted to force this stale
o f affairs upon » 8 and my people, and
took and subscribed to an oath that you
would grant the negro every “ privilege
and immunity ” enjoyed by any class
o f persons, and (produom g a six-shooter)
by the Eternal you shall carry out your
po!icy—HM> in there with y o u !’ ’
Mr. Radical, not liking the close
proximity o f the pistol, got into bed,
but we don’ t think he stayed there till
morniog.
T he Advocate says that Rev. A . F.
W aller *.* expects to five aU the days o f
his life.” W e would suggest on amend­
ment— i t .,— that he expects to live
4for all coming time to come.*’
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David Stiles, o f Iowa is said to be
the oldest Free M»aou in the Uujted
State*, i-j
■m